From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: index-pack died on pread Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:02:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <333e1ca10707230552i34c2a1cfq9fae94f20023e9d7@mail.gmail.com> <200707260115.13234.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <81b0412b0707260542o58fcb73bu81ae09aa1df84c81@mail.gmail.com> <81b0412b0707260951h57fc91dbsd5a0a126f0e16fee@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Cc: Robin Rosenberg , Michal Rokos , GIT To: Alex Riesen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 26 20:03:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IE7gY-0006u9-0N for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:03:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934576AbXGZSDd (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:03:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934631AbXGZSDd (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:03:33 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:57913 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934473AbXGZSDc (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:03:32 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [207.189.120.55]) by smtp2.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l6QI2vto004029 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:02:58 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l6QI2q6u013074; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:02:52 -0700 In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0707260951h57fc91dbsd5a0a126f0e16fee@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.734 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-osdl_revision__1.15__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.181 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 207.189.120.14 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Alex Riesen wrote: > > > > HP-UX? No pread()? It wouldn't link if it didn't have pread(). So it > > clearly has pread(), it's just somehow broken. > > I remember it didn't and was emulated with lseek. So? The point is, that *works*. We do it ourselves. "emulated with lseek" is trivial, and should work. It worries me that two totally independent systems are showing problems. There's something else going on here. Linus